Regarding the award to the Shelby County Reporter for the best story “The Limestone Quarry Project” I beg to differ. Much of the information they used came straight from the quarry PR sources. Citizens made numerous attempts to have information included in the SCRs coverage only to be rebuffed for the most part.
The paper also rewrote their commenting guidelines and began practicing severe censorship on the same. It’s clear they had an agenda. Maybe that had something to do with the huge revenues that will benefit the county, with none of the risk.
Maybe it also has to do with the fact that the newspaper editor is also president of the economic development arm of the county.
The point is, that the paper’s coverage of this issue was biased and selective at best. That is hardly, journalistic integrity in my opinion.

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